46mm Hamilton Men's Broadway Automatic GMT Watch (Black Leather Strap)
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Ashford has 46mm Hamilton Men's Broadway Automatic GMT Watch (Black Leather Strap, H001.43.725.731.01) for $489 when you apply discount code ASHHAM489 in your cart. Shipping is free.
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This watch is a steal at this price. The movement is an H-14, which is a modified ETA (ETA, like Hamilton, is owned by the Swatch group, along with a bunch of watchmakers like Omega, Tissot, Longines, Rado, Certina, Glashutte Original, etc.) The movement has an 80 hour power reserve (very good), is a traveller's or "true" GMT, meaning the local hour jumps rather than the GMT hour, which is nice if you yourself are travelling, as when you change timezones, it's very easy to adjust the watch. A lot of cheaper GMTs are caller GMTs rather than this format. In those watches, the GMT hour jumps.
There are some downsides, imo. The first is that it's really big. Giant watches were very popular, and to many they are still popular, but watch size is a bit of a fad thing, and the fad is for smaller watches lately. If you're very big, or just prefer large watches, then ignore all of that.
The other downsides of this watch relates to the movement. The escapement is synthetic, which is a nice way of saying plastic. Watch nerds don't like this because they're masochists who probably got mad when they removed the choke lever from cars. And they suspect that the plastic will not be robust and durable, although I don't know there's any reason to actually believe this. Additionally, the balance doesn't have a regulating stud. It's regulated at the factory by laser. You cannot regulate it yourself. Since like .01% of people actually regulate their own watches, it's probably no big deal to most people. But if you do find it's running too slow or fast for your liking, the only thing to be done is to send it to Hamilton or a local watchmaker who will just put a new movement in it, or at least a new balance complete. If you can source a movement yourself, you could do that yourself, but without an ETA parts account it'll be hard to find one. So the movement is kind of disposable in a way that other mechanical watch movements are not. It's really a stupid thing to be obsessed over to be honest, but as I mentioned, watch people are really weird and self-destructive, and with watches, tiny details are often massively amplified.
Not my style, but I've got to admit that I wouldn't want a world watch without Bangkok on it. I'd get rid of Hamilton on the face and replace it with Bangkok; now that's a conversation piece
I have the non-GMT version of this watch that I paid just a little bit less than this grey from Jomashop I think, and the fit and finish are really wonderful.
I think that the stock image photos really don't show the dial well, which has a really nice texture to it, and the indices show extremely well. Basically, the vertical ridges have depth. This listing on Chrono24 has some IRL pics which show it a bit better https://www.chrono24.com/hamilton...471650.htm
Also, there is a seller on ebay that has the GMT on the silver metal bracelet in new condition for $559.
It's not a useless comment even if stated in the title too. 46mm is an absurd size for a watch and gives pause to anyone who has no concept of what that means (=most Americans) to consider that they might be buying something they regret unless they need protection in food fights.
Now your comment, that's useless. A brainfart followed by a smiley is still a brainfart.
Maybe it is too large FOR you. Depends on how big you are. You ever see a 42mm on a football player? Looks like a kids watch. Panerai has huge following, most of their watches start like at 44mm. Even the apple iwatch has 45mm. Big people like Shaq, Dwayne Johnson, Sly, Arnold S, all rock huge time pieces.
This watch is a steal at this price. The movement is an H-14, which is a modified ETA (ETA, like Hamilton, is owned by the Swatch group, along with a bunch of watchmakers like Omega, Tissot, Longines, Rado, Certina, Glashutte Original, etc.) The movement has an 80 hour power reserve (very good), is a traveller's or "true" GMT, meaning the local hour jumps rather than the GMT hour, which is nice if you yourself are travelling, as when you change timezones, it's very easy to adjust the watch. A lot of cheaper GMTs are caller GMTs rather than this format. In those watches, the GMT hour jumps.
There are some downsides, imo. The first is that it's really big. Giant watches were very popular, and to many they are still popular, but watch size is a bit of a fad thing, and the fad is for smaller watches lately. If you're very big, or just prefer large watches, then ignore all of that.
The other downsides of this watch relates to the movement. The escapement is synthetic, which is a nice way of saying plastic. Watch nerds don't like this because they're masochists who probably got mad when they removed the choke lever from cars. And they suspect that the plastic will not be robust and durable, although I don't know there's any reason to actually believe this. Additionally, the balance doesn't have a regulating stud. It's regulated at the factory by laser. You cannot regulate it yourself. Since like .01% of people actually regulate their own watches, it's probably no big deal to most people. But if you do find it's running too slow or fast for your liking, the only thing to be done is to send it to Hamilton or a local watchmaker who will just put a new movement in it, or at least a new balance complete. If you can source a movement yourself, you could do that yourself, but without an ETA parts account it'll be hard to find one. So the movement is kind of disposable in a way that other mechanical watch movements are not. It's really a stupid thing to be obsessed over to be honest, but as I mentioned, watch people are really weird and self-destructive, and with watches, tiny details are often massively amplified.
Lol you said pretty much exactly what I said but did it in 100x the words. Bravo!
Any comments on this piece from the watch crowd? To me, style over most everything for a watch and I personally like this, but I'm not a huge watch guy
Love the brand and have a broadway, only issue I have is its a bit small at 46mm for me, but I am a bigger guy. Some of the broadway series are even smaller so make sure and check that.
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There are some downsides, imo. The first is that it's really big. Giant watches were very popular, and to many they are still popular, but watch size is a bit of a fad thing, and the fad is for smaller watches lately. If you're very big, or just prefer large watches, then ignore all of that.
The other downsides of this watch relates to the movement. The escapement is synthetic, which is a nice way of saying plastic. Watch nerds don't like this because they're masochists who probably got mad when they removed the choke lever from cars. And they suspect that the plastic will not be robust and durable, although I don't know there's any reason to actually believe this. Additionally, the balance doesn't have a regulating stud. It's regulated at the factory by laser. You cannot regulate it yourself. Since like .01% of people actually regulate their own watches, it's probably no big deal to most people. But if you do find it's running too slow or fast for your liking, the only thing to be done is to send it to Hamilton or a local watchmaker who will just put a new movement in it, or at least a new balance complete. If you can source a movement yourself, you could do that yourself, but without an ETA parts account it'll be hard to find one. So the movement is kind of disposable in a way that other mechanical watch movements are not. It's really a stupid thing to be obsessed over to be honest, but as I mentioned, watch people are really weird and self-destructive, and with watches, tiny details are often massively amplified.
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I think that the stock image photos really don't show the dial well, which has a really nice texture to it, and the indices show extremely well. Basically, the vertical ridges have depth. This listing on Chrono24 has some IRL pics which show it a bit better https://www.chrono24.co
Also, there is a seller on ebay that has the GMT on the silver metal bracelet in new condition for $559.
Now your comment, that's useless. A brainfart followed by a smiley is still a brainfart.
There are some downsides, imo. The first is that it's really big. Giant watches were very popular, and to many they are still popular, but watch size is a bit of a fad thing, and the fad is for smaller watches lately. If you're very big, or just prefer large watches, then ignore all of that.
The other downsides of this watch relates to the movement. The escapement is synthetic, which is a nice way of saying plastic. Watch nerds don't like this because they're masochists who probably got mad when they removed the choke lever from cars. And they suspect that the plastic will not be robust and durable, although I don't know there's any reason to actually believe this. Additionally, the balance doesn't have a regulating stud. It's regulated at the factory by laser. You cannot regulate it yourself. Since like .01% of people actually regulate their own watches, it's probably no big deal to most people. But if you do find it's running too slow or fast for your liking, the only thing to be done is to send it to Hamilton or a local watchmaker who will just put a new movement in it, or at least a new balance complete. If you can source a movement yourself, you could do that yourself, but without an ETA parts account it'll be hard to find one. So the movement is kind of disposable in a way that other mechanical watch movements are not. It's really a stupid thing to be obsessed over to be honest, but as I mentioned, watch people are really weird and self-destructive, and with watches, tiny details are often massively amplified.
Great for the 8+ inch wrist people maybe
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Love the brand and have a broadway, only issue I have is its a bit small at 46mm for me, but I am a bigger guy. Some of the broadway series are even smaller so make sure and check that.